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Reaching a new audience: Anthony Quinn’s archive housed in East L.A. library

Daniel Hernandez, head of the Chicano Resource Center at the Anthony Quinn Library, stands next to a suit of armor given to him by actor John Barrymore.

Daniel Hernandez, head of the Chicano Resource Center at the Anthony Quinn Library, stands next to a suit of armor given to him by actor John Barrymore.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

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A federal grant is helping librarians and scholars explore the thousands of items of Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Quinn, a proud son of East Los Angeles.

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Daniel Hernandez, Chicano Resource Center librarian, looks through some of the archival material from the Anthony Quinn Library in East Los Angeles.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

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Anthony Quinn’s family donated the painting of Quinn hanging on the wall in the Anthony Quinn Library in East Los Angeles.   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

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